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Green gold: the empire of tea (Chinese Edition)

By Alan Macfarlane

Book information

Publisher
Social Science Academic Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9787509795354, 7509795354
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
2 MB (2085014 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
366\0
Library
sobooks
Time added
2023-06-27 08:38:32

Description

Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. Diseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on it. The industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world. Green Gold is a remarkable detective story of how an East Himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drink. Discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leaf.

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